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TITLE Askari (2002)

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DISABILITY Deaf

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 90?

GENRE Adventure

DIRECTOR David Lister

CAST Marlee Matlin

C. Thomas Howell

Amanda Fuller

 

NOTES Old fashioned and inconsequential story about a woman and her young niece whose parents have been killed. This happens somewhere on a game reserve in Africa. After initial coldness towards each other aunt and niece bond with an elephant while baddies hunt rhino. M.M. plays the aunt and communicates with her niece and her boyfriend using sign language. Though they speak to her and don't use sign. M.M. also speaks and she types on a laptop while her niece reads out her words for the benefit of the illiterate.

 


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